Would You Spend the Night at a Candy Hotel?

A
British sugar company has created a candy hotel. Seriously. The windowsills in the
Soho, London, hotel were made entirely of fudge, flower arrangements were made of sculpted sugar, the cushions on the beds were actually cakes, and there was a carpet made
of 1,081 meringues that would actually not look out of place in my own
apartment, except for the whole “made of meringues” thing.

"We hope that through the
cake hotel we can showcase the versatility of golden and brown cane sugars and
inspire people to get creative in the kitchen,” James Whiteley of Tate &
Lyle Sugars said to The Mirror. The cake hotel also serves as a scientific
investigation into just how sticky the human body can get.

The
three-floor, pop-up hotel called Tasting House had eight theme rooms full of
chocolate and candy created by 14 artists, who spent more than 3,000 hours and
1,320 pounds of sugar on the project. There was a Mayan-theme room with a
chocolate temple, a Pirates of the Caribbean room with edible swords and a
treasure chest full of candy pearls, and a Mediterranean room with marshmallow
curtains.

The
quirky, sugary fun starts to go off the rails at the bathtub full of
caramel-covered popcorn, though. A bubble bath might be relaxing and luxurious,
and if someone offered me a Jacuzzi full of Champagne I’d ask for a straw. But
there’s something inherently sad about sitting up to one’s armpits in sticky
popcorn, quietly eating kernels out of one’s cleavage. And who wants to be the
second person to have a go in the tub full of popcorn? Yuck.

Overnight
guests were plucked from Internet hopefuls based on a 140-character essay test
conducted on Twitter. The hotel was open to day visitors beforehand,
though, so before any Golden Ticket-bearers start licking the walls they would have to deal with the knowledge that dozens of strangers have been milling
about the rooms all day.

Luckily
the hotel was only open for one night, so questions about pest control, sticky
sheets, and the long-term health effects of eating that much pink food coloring
can be shoved into the back of your mind.